Best bets
Louvre Art Collection Exhibition in Shanghai
Date: Aug 15-Oct 10
Venue: Xingyue Global Harbor
Price: 70-320 yuan
Louvre engraving paint studio made 10 packages of engraving painting for Chinese art loves. Le portrait de Monna Lisa, la Joconde; La Cene; La Vierge aux Rochers (engraving painting is black and white); La Libert?? guidant le people; La baigneuse de Valpin?on; La source; Napol??on Bonaparte, Premier Consul, Passe les Alpes; Le serment des Horaces; Naissance de V??nus. Fragment; Le printemps de Sandro Botticelli.
The Rave 2015 in Shanghai
Date: Aug 1 - 5:30 pm
Venue: Mao Livehouse Shanghai
Price: 15-200 yuan
The Rave 2015 - the biggest electronic music party of this summer. Want to breathe, but also to the music. Two venues. All electronic dance music, house, and techno. The Rave is bringing in Tenashar, Spencer Tarring, and eleven other DJs for a rager at Mao Livehouse and On-Stage. This goes from 5:30-11:30 pm at Mao Livehouse, followed by the after-party at On-Stage. Acts include Beatreker, Shogun, Jetfire, Tenashar, Dave Till, Dirty Class, Peter Li, Spencer Tarring a.k.a. DJ Spenny, DJ Arron, George Von Liger, Dirty Class, Shane, and Messiah.
2015 Summer Music Festival-LBM Choir Concert
Date: Aug 10 - 8 pm
Venue: Guangzhou Opera House
Price: 80-480 yuan
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his 1986 album Graceland, and have won multiple awards, including four Grammy Awards. They were formed by Joseph Shabalala in 1960 and later became one of South Africa's most prolific recording artists, with their releases receiving gold and platinum disc honors. The group has now become a mobile academy, teaching people about South Africa and its culture.
Magic Piano & The Chopin Shorts in Shenzhen
Date: Aug 15 - 8 pm
Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall
Price: 80-280 yuan
The Oscar-winning producers of Peter and the Wolf present a cinematic event with live piano accompaniment that's fit for the whole family. The films on offer here are a series of shorts full of goofy characters and slapstick called The Chopin Shorts, and Magic Piano - an animated film about a young girl named Anna and her cousin Chip-Chip, who together embark upon an adventure to find Anna's dad aboard a flying piano. On hand to provide the soundtrack are multiple award-winning teenage pianist Zhang Haotian.
German National Youth Orchestra Concert in Guangzhou
Date: Aug 3 - 8 pm
Venue: Shanghai Daning Theater
Price: 80-480 yuan
The German National Youth Orchestra, founded by the German Music Council in 1969, is one of the world's leading youth orchestras. The best young musicians from all over Germany aged between 14 and 19 devote themselves to exacting orchestral works from all periods in an environment of intensive work phases, and demonstrate their skills by holding regular concert tours under the direction of celebrated conductors such as Kurt Masur, Sir Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko and Sebastian Weigle.
Drama Inspector General in Shanghai
Date: Aug 12-13 - 7:15 pm
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater - Lyric Theater
Price: 160-680 yuan
Valery Fokin, who addresses Inspector General for the third time so far, is rightfully considered one of the best experts in the N.V. Gogol's creative legacy. It was exactly on this stage that the immortal Gogol's comedy was presented for the first time on 19 April, 1836, and N.V.Gogol himself took an active part in the staging of that legendary play. Present production is the tenth Alexandrinsky version of "Inspector General". In the stage, musicality of compositional and plastic action structure, elegance of compositional and plastic pattern, Russia is shown here not only as a satirical portrayal of the conditional 19th century, but also as a more realistic picture drawing Russia in general, the way it was in the 19th century, depicted similarly in the 21st century.
